Implement, Improve and Expand Your Statewide Longitudinal Data System (PDF)

Step-by-step guidance for implementing an effective statewidelongitudinal data system

Every U.S. state faces challenges in its efforts to ensure thehighest-quality education for students. To address thesechallenges, a growing number of states are establishing statewidelongitudinal data systems (SLDSs), a data-rich system integratingrelevant data about a student's education. ImplementingStatewide Longitudinal Data Systems for Education presents adetailed and contextualized discussion of SLDSs, which will serveas a recipe for states that want to implement an SLDS, developdesign and enactment of new and existing SLDS systems, addressingimplementation, operation and optimization.
* Provides a contextualized discussion of the history and purposeof SLDSs
* Describes how to plan for and implement an SLDS, including bestpractices regarding data governance, standards and privacy
* Discusses proven methods of data management, and details thetwo most popular methods of database architectures used forSLDSs
* Provides 5 case studies of states successfully using SLDSs
* Offers suggestions for expansion and inclusion of new datasetsover time

This essential book addresses the culture of data concept,providing a guide for states to usher in a new era in theireducation system where data is invaluable and used by everyone, notsimply the newest version of the old system. A robust LDSinitiative includes linked student records, teacher records, testscores, course selection, finances, certifications, licensure,salary and more. Concluding with a discussion of the potentialfuture uses of SLDS, this book is the ultimate guide to SLDSimplementation and understanding.